Word: lee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bird In Hand. Playwright John Drinkwater heretofore has dealt chiefly with such authentic characters as Abraham Lincoln, Mary Stuart, Oliver Cromwell, Robert E. Lee. It is strange but not unsatisfactory to see him turn now to less historic folk, men and women who are caricatured for the sake of a good time...
Died. Katharine Lee Bates, 69, of Wellesley, Mass., professor emeritus of English literature of Wellesley College, authoress of the hymn "America the Beautiful"; in Wellesley...
Jones was awarded the Lee Wade prize of $50 for his recitation of Edmund Rostand's "Selection from Cyrano de Bergerac." The Boylston award of $50 was presented to Anastos for his delivery in the original Latin of "The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice", from the Fourth Georgie by Virgil. Meyer, reciting a selection from Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus", and Greene, with Tennyson's "Ulysses", were awarded the two other Boylston prizes which had been announced as $30 each but which were yesterday increased...
...Cruiser Bill", House of Representatives. February 9, 1929, by Hop. George Huddleston; W. A. Fowlie '31; "Blue Symphony", by J. G. Fletcher; F. I. Kogos '29; "Boots", by Rudyard Kipling; E. J. Day '31; Ecclesiastes, Chapter XI and XII; F. F. Hart '30; A Tribute to Robert E. Lee", by Charles H. Brough...
...judges of the competition were Eliot Wadsworth '98, president of the Board of Overseers; M. A. DeW. Howe, and Joseph Lee '83, both members of the Board of Overseers; the Reverend S. A. Eliot '84, pastor of the Arlington Street Church; and E. K. Rand '94, Professor of Latin in the University...